Book Quote by Brian Morton

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide…

— Lev Grossman

“She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great…

— Susan Power

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

“His words put an ache in her heart. She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was,…

— Maya Banks

“Books had been her solace when she was sad, her friends when she was lonely. They had mended her heart when it was broken,…

— Jenny Colgan

“And yet she didn't want to kill herself. She loved the world too much, and people. She loved taking long walks in the late…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Little did she know that this was going to be not just any book, but the book that changed her life. In the time…

— Elif Shafak

“She loved books. She loved them with her senses and her intellect. They way they looked and smelled; the way they felt in her…

— Betty Smith

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich

“To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had…

— Henry James

“She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a…

— jonathan safran foer